Is there a prime $p$ and an infinite simple $p$-group $G$ such that for any field $K$ of characteristic $p$ the only irreducible $KG$-module, whether finite or infinite dimensional, is trivial (that ...

A complex Lie algebra $L$ has a representation on $Der(L)$ by just putting $x.D=-ad_{Dx}$. For semisimple Lie algebras, by Weyl's theorem, $Der(L)$ decomposes into irreducible subspaces $D_i$. Then my ...

Suppose I am in the setting of the decomposition theorem, i.e., we have the decomposition of the direct image $f_*\mathbb Q_\ell$, where $f:X\to Y$ is proper. Then the direct image decomposes into a ...

I found A question similar to this, but the answer wasn't clear to me and I'm not supposed to ask for further clarification in the answer section.
Let $L$ a semi simple local system defined over an ...

Once octonions product is studied, together with the relations with $Spin(8)$ and $SO(8)$ geometry (see for instance Robert Bryant's notes), one realises that the key fact bringing all the phenomena ...

Apologies in advance that this is a very soft question. I might be talking complete nonsense. But I hope I am talking about something that has even been studied...
I am interested in the phenomenon ...

This is a follow-up of this previous question below:
Intersections of $B$ and $B^-$ orbits in the flag variety $G/B$
Let $G = SL_n(\mathbb{C})$, $B$ be the standard Borel subgroup, and consider some ...

Let $T_{\lambda}$ be the set of standard young tableaux (SYT) of shape $\lambda_1\geq \lambda_2\cdots\geq \lambda_n$. Now consider pushing a row $\mu$ with $\mu\geq \lambda_1$ onto $Y$ to give shape ...

Let $G$ be a complex reductive algebraic group (connected, simply connected etc), viewed as a real group. We study the representations of $G$, and we follow the notations in the paper of Barbasch and ...

Let $G$ be a real semisimple Lie group and $K$ a maximal compact subgroup. Let $\mathfrak{g}$ and $\mathfrak{k}$ be the complexified Lie algebra of $G$ and $K$, respectively.
Then the Hecke algebra ...

The Verlinde ring of a (let us say) simply connected simple compact Lie group has as underlying additive group the Grothendieck group of representations of the central extension $\widehat{LG}$ of the ...

As a unimodular subgroup of the group of automorphisms of $\mathbb{R}^2$, $\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ can be represented as a subgroup of $\mathcal{U}(L^2(\mathbb{R}^2))$ (the group of unitary ...

Let $G$ be a simply-connected simple compact Lie group. Its center $Z(G)$ is a finite abelian group, say $Z(G) = \mathbb Z/k\mathbb Z$ for $G=SU(k)$.
I find the following interpretation of $Z(G)$ in ...

Let $V$ be a complex vector space.
Let $x_1,...,x_k\in PV$. Let $v_d: PV\rightarrow PS^dV$
be the Veronese. Then $v_d(x_1),...,v_d(x_k)$ are in general linear position
as long as $k\leq d-1$.
Now let ...

I've seen two different ways to define induced representation.
One is as in the book Introduction to representation theory: If $G$ is a group, $H$ is a subgroup of it, and $V$ is a representation of ...

I asked this question on Math.SE here, but did not get a lot of attention.
I am interested in the problem of determining the Jordan decomposition of the tensor product of two unipotent matrices over ...

This question concerns a seemingly folk lore result, which states that automorphism groups of generic complete intersections are trivial, under certain assumptions.
To state the question, let $r \geq ...

I recently asked this question about Euler subgroups and generalizing the automorphic theory of $\mathrm{GL}_n$ to a more general setting. My question here is more specific.
As mentioned there, the ...

Suppose that $\rho : G \longrightarrow U_n(\mathbb C)$ is an irreducible representation of group $G$. Suppose that $P$ is a projection of $\mathbb C^n$ into a subspace of small codimension (i.e. of ...

Recently, I have read about the Whittaker expansion for $\mathrm{GL}_n$ and was struck by the utility of the mirabolic subgroup, $\mathrm{P}_n\subset \mathrm{GL}_n$ of matrices with bottom row $(0\; 0 ...